100% Financial Assistance Demanded for Special Tiger Protection Force : Sudhir Mungantiwar

New-Delhi,12: Maharashtra Cabinet Minister  for Forest Department, Sudhir Mungantiwar participated in the meeting for Tiger Conservation held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. He demanded 100% Financial Assistance from Centre for Tiger Protection Force instead of 60:40 ratio in the state.   

    The Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated the 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation. Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change was also present on the dias.

       After the  Conference, Meeting held among Mr. Javadekar and states forest ministers. The Maharashtra Forest Minister Mungantiwar, asked Financial Aid for establishment of Tiger Research  Center in Maharashtra from the centre and  demanded to publish Post Ticket on Tadoba Tiger Reserve Project.

     During his Inaugural speech PM said,  India has a long standing and successful track record of protecting its tigers. We launched “Project Tiger” in 1973. Its coverage has increased considerably from the initial 9 tiger reserves to 49 at present. Tiger conservation is a collective responsibility of the Government of India and States. I also compliment our State governments for their efforts. But the efforts of Government cannot succeed unless they are supported by the people. Our cultural legacy which encourages compassion and co-existence has played an important role in the success of Project Tiger. Due to such collective efforts, there has been a rise of thirty per cent in the number of tigers. It has gone up from 1706 in 2010 to 2226 in 2014. 

      He also underlined  that  Our National Tiger Conservation Authority has taken many landmark initiatives. Use of modern technology, including intelligent, infrared and thermal cameras on a 24x7 basis is being promoted for surveillance against poaching in sensitive tiger reserves. Several protocols for smart patrolling and tiger monitoring have been evolved. Radio telemetry is also being promoted to monitor tigers. A national repository of tiger camera trap photo database is also being created. To do all this, we have, this year, doubled our allocation for tiger conservation. We have increased it from Rupees 185 crores to Rupees 380 crores; which is 3.8 billion Rupees

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